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			<h1>Rescuing a crushed hose, cleaning an upholstered chair, and attempting to set up a Wi-Fi dongle</h1>
			<p>Day 00516: Thursday, 2016 August 04</p>
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	I am not comfortable borrowing items from people without their knowledge and without their permission.
	I spotted a hose trapped under the fallen tree and vines in the back yard yesterday while I was power washing, so I made it my goal for the day to rescue the hose and prevent the further need to jack my father&apos;s hose.
	It turns out that a large branch that was supporting the tree was lying right on top of the hose, crushing it, so I feared that the hose would have become too leaky to be of any good.
	Once the hose was free, I hooked it up to the power washer to find out how damaged the hose actually was, and found that it&apos;d survived remarkably well; the water pressure restored the hose&apos;s rightful shape and no visible leaking occurred.
	I think that the tree actually protected the hose more than it harmed it, blocking the sun&apos;s destructive rays from hitting the hose nearly as much as they otherwise would have.
	With everything working correctly, I finished power washing the back porch.
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	Vanessa cut themself shaving, but didn&apos;t notice until they&apos;d bled on our mother&apos;s new second-hand chair.
	They tried to clean it off, but that didn&apos;t co as expected, as attempting to clean off the blood spots only made them that much larger.
	They had me take a look, and much to our surprise, the upholstered chair was actually covered in an unnoticeable layer of dirt.
	The large spots on the chair weren&apos;t smeared blood - they were clean spots! Vanessa worried that our mother might have wanted the chair to be the color that they&apos;d purchased the chair as, but neither of us had any way to revert the chair to it&apos;s former state.
	I scrubbed the rest of the chair to make the whole thing clean, thereby removing the spots.
	As I though, our mother wasn&apos;t upset about the color change when they got home, but they also didn&apos;t go take a look at it.
	Still, clean is better than dirty, so I never expected there to be a problem.
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	Our mother liked the school in Salem.
	They really want to live in Salem, saying that Salem has the same feel as Springfield but is a bit further from our father.
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	Vanessa, our mother, and I headed to the store to get a Wi-Fi dongle for our mother, as apparently, they apparently understand the concept of Wi-Fi dongles better than Wi-Fi cards.
	The Wi-Fi card is of course a much better option, as that option doesn&apos;t involve blocking the laptop&apos;s one and only <abbr title="Universal Serial Bus">USB</abbr> port and the Wi-Fi card slot probably offers better speeds than the <abbr title="Universal Serial Bus">USB</abbr> port, but once our mother gets strange ideas in their head, there&apos;s no arguing with them.
	Quite frankly, I&apos;m not the one dealing with the machine either, so it&apos;s not my problem if my mother wants to go with the more frustrating option.
	Once we had it home, I attempted to set up the Wi-Fi dongle for them, but that didn&apos;t go well.
	First, the Wi-Fi dongle insisted that it required a Windows update before it&apos;d support encrypted Wi-Fi networks.
	This machine&apos;s running Windows XP, I&apos;m not even sure if such an update even still exists.
	After much frustration, I managed to get Java and Android tools set up, but <abbr title="Android Debug Bridge">ADB</abbr> refused to cooperate.
	With no pseudo-tethering and no Wi-Fi, I wasn&apos;t able to even try to update the machine and had to give up for the night.
	I also tried setting up my own supposedly-free Wi-Fi dongle on the machine, but even with the driver installed, the machine doesn&apos;t seem to recognize the hardware.
	Our mother says that there&apos;s an open Wi-Fi access point at the corner of our block, so I&apos;ll try using it to update the machine in the morning.
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